A very excel[n]t [and] sweet exposition upon the XXII. [sic] Psalm of David called…A very excelle[n]t [and] swete exposition vpon the XXII. [sic] Psalme of Dauid called…

Ye but thou wilt say:¹ I feel not my self yet so apt, that I could be content to dye. &c. That maketh no matter.² David also (as it is said afore) hath not been sure of that science at all hours, but sometime complained that he was cast out of gods sight. Other holy men also have not alway had an hearty confidence toward God, and a perpetual delight and patience in their troubles and temptations.³ Saint Paul sometime is so sure & certain in him self, and maketh such boast of Christ, that he careth not for the curse of the law, for sin, death, nor for the devil. I live not now (sayeth he. Galat. ii.) but Christ liveth in me. Item: I desire to be loosed and to be with Christ. Phil i. Item: Who shall separate us from the love of God, which spared not is own son, but hath given him for us all? How shall he not with him give us all things also? Shall trouble, anguish, persecution, sword, &c. separate us from him? Ro. viii. There speaketh he of death, of the devil, and of all evil with such a courage, as if he were the strongest and greatest ⟨image 36⟩of all saints, unto whom death were but a sport. But incontinently in another place, he speaketh as though he were the weakest and greatest sinner upon earth. i. Cor. ii. I was with you (sayeth he,) in weakness, in fear, and in much trembling. I am carnal, sold under sin, and taken prisoner in the law of sin, which is in my members. O wretched man that I am, who shall deliver me from the body of this death? Roma. vii. And in the fifth to the Galath. he teacheth that in the saints of God there is a continual strife of the flesh against the spirit. &c. Therefore oughtest thou not immediately to despair, though thou fellest thy self feeble and fainthearted, but pray diligently that thou mayest endure by the word, and increase in the faith and knowledge of Christ. As the prophet doth here, & teacheth other men likewise so to do, and sayeth:

Yee but thou wylt saye: